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Nomination Form Form No. 10-300 (Rev. 10-74) DATA SHEET UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOWTO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER F ____ TYPE ALL ENTRIES - COMPLETE APPLICABLE II NAME t. HISTORIC ino, Amos, House AND/OR COMMON Simsbury House LOCATION NATIONAL CITY. TOWN VICINITY OF #6 ~ Rep* Inthony T STATE CODE COUNTY CODE 09 Hartford 003 CATEGORY OWNERSHIP PRESENT USE —DISTRICT —PUBLIC —AGRICULTURE —MUSEUM ILBUILDINGIS) X.PRIVATE —UNOCCUPIED —COMMERCIAL —PARK —STRUCTURE —BOTH A-WORK IN PROGRESS —EDUCATIONAL —PRIVATE RESIDENCE —SITE PUBLIC ACQUISITION ACCESSIBLE —ENTERTAINMENT —RELIGIOUS —OBJECT —IN PROCESS —YES: RESTRICTED —GOVERNMENT —SCIENTIFIC —BEING CONSIDERED - YES: UNRESTRICTED —INDUSTRIAL —TRANSPORTATION 1±NO '—MILITARY" OWNER OF PROPERTY NAME Town o£ simsbury CITY. TOWN STATE VICINITY OF Connecticut LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE. REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC Town Hall STREET & NUMBER 760 Hopmeadow St» CITY. TOWN STATE Connecticut DATE 1975 —FEDERAL X.STATE —COUNTY —LOCAL DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS Connecticut Historical Consnission CITY. TOWN STATE Hartford DESCRIPTION CONDITION CHECK ONE —EXCELLENT —DETERIORATED —GOOD —RUINS "^jaTERED —MOVED DATE. ?_FAIR _UNEXPOSED DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE The Amos Eno House was built in 3B22.Jay an unknown architect. .-Though subsequently much alteredTin the 1890's, it was originally designed in the late Georgian style. The Brio House was built upon a central-4iall plan with double end chimneys. It is of brick construction, being laid up in Flemish bond. As originally con­ structed, the house had a gable roof surmounting a two-story rec- ; tangular-plan house block. A Doric columned, pedimented porch leads to a handsome Georgian style main doorway surrounded by sidelights and a fanlight* The cornice treatment, window;and sash architraves, as well as several interior mantles, reflect the influence of Adam and late Georgian styling, and are in good condition. The original (1022) enclosed staircase also remains at the end of the front hall, but an opened staircase was later built in the northwest part of the house. In 1890, verandas were added along the front and sides of the house, and in 1900 the gambrel roof and dormers were added, all in the prevalent style of Beaux Arts Classicism. In addition, a large rear ell was added to the main house block, producing the present irregular "T11 house plan. Other minor alterations were made during the early years of the twentieth centuxy, as the house has served for a boardirig house and restaurant. In 1903, at the request of the owner, Mrs. G.B.. Woods, Frederick Law; Olmsted was commissioned to provide a landscape design for the Eno House property. Much of his work is still visible, especial ly from Hopmeadow Road, where the viewer is afforded glimpses of the house through trees which both frame the structure and obscure it from the large volume of traffic on the road. SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW —PREHISTORIC _ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC COMMUNITY PLANNING —^-LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE —RELIGION —.1400-1499 —ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC —CONSERVATION —LAW —SCIENCE —1500-1599 —AGRICULTURE —ECONOMICS —LITERATURE —SCULPTURE —1600-1699 —ARCHITECTURE —EDUCATION —MILITARY —SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN —1700-1799 _ART —ENGINEERING —MUSIC —THEATER ~L1800-1899 —COMMERCE —EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT —PHILOSOPHY _TRANSPORTATION fLl900- —COMMUNICATIONS —INDUSTRY —POLITICS/GOVERNMENT —OTHER (SPECIFY) —INVENTION BUILDER/ARCHITECT AlHOS STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The Amos Ino House(-0o named fer the original occupant-araarfetsSAder) is .primarily significant as the birthplace of Gifford Pinchot(b» 1865) A landscape architect, forester and eonservationist, Pinchot became the first chief forester of the United States Forest Service in 1905. Throughout his life, Pinchot made great progress in alerting the nation to the necessity of resource conservation, the Ino House, surrounded by Olmstedf s landscaping, and bordering upon the large Belden Porest(once part of Eno estate, now in public ovznership), exemplifies Pinchot f s concern for preservation of natural areas* In addition to association with Pinchot, the Eno House occupies a presminent position on the lain north-south road through the village of Simsbury. As such the property is a visual landmark in the town, and contributes significantly to the maintenence of village character. Architecturally, the Ino House is a late Georgian style residence, which has been extensively modified in the compatible ecledtic idiomr of Beaux Arts Classicism, ?m 11 Abigail Eno Ellsworth, "The Amos R» Eno House", typescript (ca. 1930), in possession of Connecticut Historical Conraission Abstract of title, in possession of Town of Simsbury, typescript copy compiled for Connecticut Historical Coramission ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY. UTM REFERENCES All.8| 1618.21 2,6, J4.6i3>7|8.1.0t ZONE EASTING NORTHING ZONE EASTING NORTHING C i :,'i , i . i D| ':. I I I . I . > I I . I i-[ . LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPNG! STATE OR COUNTY BpUNDAR . - . f-^ - ' rrw 1 1,1Q7§--" , ' - i ' -Tt.,^-4 , 1*1° S-J J, •-•*- IWs M ' STATE CODE COUNTY rgDDE CODE COUNTY CODE ORGANIZATION Connecticut Historical Commission STREET & NUMBER ' TELEPHONE 59 S« Prospect Street STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: X NATIONAL JL. STATE. LOCAL, As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665). I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Eark Service. TITLE state Historic Form No. 10-300a (Rev, 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ... t. * NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM A 1 CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER ° PAGE ^ Elisha Phelps built the present house in 1822 after having demolished an older house standing on a ten acre parcel inherited from his father, General Noah Phelps. Elisha Phelps (1779-1847), a graduate of Yale College (class of 1800), was a prominent local attorney. Phelps represented Simsbury in the Connecticut legislature in ten sessions between 1807 and 1835j serving as Clerk of the House in 1818 and as Speaker of the House in 1821 and 1829. Phelps sat in the Connecticut Senate for three terms, 1822-1824, He was elected State Comptroller for the four year term 1830-1834. Upon his death in 1847, Phelps' house in Simsbury was left to his two sons-in-law. Amos Richards Eno (1810-1398), son-in-law of Elisha Phelps, began his career as a dry goods merchant in Simsbury after learning the trade as a clerk in Hartford. He established a successful dry goods firm in New York in 1833. By 1857 Amos R, Eno had acquired such extensive real estate holdings that he gave up the dry goods business to devote his full energies toward the real estate business. He built the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City soon after 1859 in a location many thought to be too far uptown to be practical. However, this venture prospered and by the time of his death in 1898, Eno f s fortune amounted to some $25,000,000. Eno bought complete title to the house in Simsbury in 1875 after having been left a half interest in it with his brother-in- law, John Alien. Eno spent summers in Simsbury and retired there in the last years of his life. Eno f s name is connected with the house because of his half-century association with the building. Gifford Pinchot was born in his grandfather Amos Eno f s summer house in Simsbury on August 11, 1865- He spent the first seven summers of his life at the Eno House and in later life often returned there to visit his grandparents. Form No. 10-300a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET_________________ITEM NUMBER_______PAGE___________ En®, Amos, House 9 2 Olmsted Associates Inc,, Brookline, Mass,, "plan card index": receipts for landscape planning, issued to Mrs* E«B. Woods, Simsbury, Connecticut; various dates, 1903* Town of Simsbury, The Simsburj Houses 1 Study of Proposed UseF1974* Form No. 10-300a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR liillillilliii NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM CONTINUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER PAGE Amos Eno House Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut UTM Reference A 18/682 300/46 B 18/682 320/46 C 18/682 260/46 D 18/682 160/46 E 18/682 120/46 F 18/682 180/46 G 18/682 240/46 Acreage; 10 This property is described in the land records, Town Clerk's Office, Connecticut, Voi, 206, page 156. GPO 892 455.
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